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Quotes About Hunger

TAKE THIS LONGING
~ Leonard Cohen
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Bread without love is like grass without salt -- the stomach may be filled, but it leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
~ Leonid Andreyev
Instead of hungering after God, we've feasted at the table of cheap substitutes. No wonder we are left still hungry and longing for more.
~ Leslie Vernick
We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.
~ Marcia Fudge
When you look at how much we spend on social programs in our country, it separates us from a lot of countries. In our country, if you're hungry, we'll feed you. If you're homeless, we'll house you. If you're too poor to be sick, we'll pay for your doctor. But all of that comes at a cost.
~ John Kennedy
I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
~ Charles Bukowski
If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~ John Desmond Bernal
A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.
~ Dina Titus
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
~ Al Gore
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
cold soup waiting for him, and a bone with
~ Jean M. Auel
Ese aperitivo que es el hambre contribuía a que todo tuviera mejor sabor aún.
~ Jean M. Auel
A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.
~ Jean Ziegler
La conscience de l'identité entre tous les hommes est au fondement du droit à l'alimentation. Personne ne saurait tolérer la destruction de son semblable par la faim sans mettre en danger sa propre humanité, son identité. (p. 122)
~ Jean Ziegler
I was hungry, but I was nervous too. You were so new and I didn't want to frighten you away. I didn't want to frighten myself away.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Can I have some fish-bait?' I asked.
~ Jeanette Winterson
You might reason that you can easily feed a leopard and that your garden is big enough, but you will know in your dreams at least that no leopard is ever satisfied with what it is given. After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough garden for your love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
los únicos males que teme son el dolor y el hambre. Digo el dolor y no la muerte, pues el animal nunca sabrá qué cosa es morir; el conocimiento de la muerte y de sus terrores es una de las primeras adquisiciones hechas por el hombre al apartarse de su condición animal.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.
~ Chris Mohr